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Kind Quotes by Ayn Rand
- You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary…
- Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the…
- About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything…
- Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think…
- To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
- I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on…
- Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's…
- It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels…
- Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in…
- Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time…
- The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them…
- Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species…
- You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to…
- Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I…
- I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated…
- There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t…
- She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.
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- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
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